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My dad told me the first time that he saw a television was in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1947. He went on a sales call and noticed there was a crowd of fifty people on the sidewalk in front of a business.

He returned thirty minutes later and there were now a hundred people so he found a parking space and walked across the street. Everyone was standing around a storefront window watching a baseball game being broadcast on a tiny round screen, probably an early Zenith.

Wonder if there's any technology that would draw a crowd to a store window like that today?




a few years ago an apple launch would do that. they smartly built the stores large enough to contain the crowds, though.


That wasn't about the technology though. I don't imagine the technology of those apple products in a boring package would have drawn the same crowd.




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